The selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2012 award is Professor Moshe Tennenholtz (Technion/Microsoft Research Israel). Professor Tennenholtz is honoured for his substantial and sustained contributions to the foundations of multi-agent systems. His contributions range from the first formal studies of social laws for multi-agent systems, through contributions to the computational theory of auctions, multi-agent learning, computational social choice theory, reputation and ranking systems, and the notion of program equilibrium. In addition, Prof Tennenholtz has a substantial track record of outstanding community service, including serving as an editor-in-chief of JAIR: the Journal of AI Research.
